[PATCH 3/3] ext4: Avoid freeing inodes on dirty list

Jan Kara
2020-04-21T08:54:51Z

When we are evicting inode with journalled data, we may race with
transaction commit in the following way:

CPU0 CPU1
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() evict(inode)
inode_io_list_del()
inode_wait_for_writeback()
process BJ_Forget list
__jbd2_journal_insert_checkpoint()
__jbd2_journal_refile_buffer()
__jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer()
if (test_clear_buffer_jbddirty(bh))
mark_buffer_dirty(bh)
__mark_inode_dirty(inode)
ext4_evict_inode(inode)
frees the inode

This results in use-after-free issues in the writeback code (or
the assertion added in the previous commit triggering).

Fix the problem by removing inode from writeback lists once all the page
cache is evicted and so inode cannot be added to writeback lists again.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index e416096fc081..d8a9d3da678c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -220,6 +220,16 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
ext4_begin_ordered_truncate(inode, 0);
truncate_inode_pages_final(&inode->i_data);

+ /*
+ * For inodes with journalled data, transaction commit could have
+ * dirtied the inode. Flush worker is ignoring it because of I_FREEING
+ * flag but we still need to remove the inode from the writeback lists.
+ */
+ if (!list_empty_careful(&inode->i_io_list)) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!ext4_should_journal_data(inode));
+ inode_io_list_del(inode);
+ }
+
/*
* Protect us against freezing - iput() caller didn't have to have any
* protection against it
--
2.16.4